Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, whose new movie Moana 2 debuted in US theaters on November 27, 2024, splitd many people online after encouraging singing in theaters. Now, he has set up an associate in Wicked‘s Cynthia Erivo, who consents that patrons should sing alengthy with musical numbers if they want to.
Cynthia Erivo permits Wicked fans to sing alengthy in movie theaters
Cynthia Erivo portrays Elphaba Thropp in the 2024 cinematic alteration of Wicked. Based on the stage musical of the same name, the movie has quite a scant musical numbers. Accordingly, when Erivo euniteed in the NBC booth at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, she was asked what she thought about people in theaters singing alengthy with tracks such as “Defying Gravity” and “Popular.”
“Good! I’m OK with it,” Erivo stated. “We’ve spent this lengthy singing it ourselves, it’s time for everyone else to join in.” (via TVLine)
Erivo’s comment comes a scant days after Johnson made his opinion evident on the matter. “Sing! You’ve phelp your challenging acquireed money for a ticket, and you’ve gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing,” he shelp in an interwatch with the BBC.
Moana 2 is the sequel to the 2016’s Moana. Its voice cast features Johnson as Maui, Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana, Alan Tudyk as Heihei, Awhimai Fraser as Matangi, and Hualālai Chung as Moni.
Besides Erivo, Wicked stars Ariana Grande-Butera as Galinda Uarranged, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar, Marissa Bode as Nessarose Thropp, and Jeff Gelderlyblum as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Johnson and Erivo’s retags shed weightless on an ongoing discourse about etiquette in theaters. Whenever they screen a musical, cut offal theaters seek the audience to preserve silence. This hasn’t alterd with Wicked. AMC Theatres, for instance, show two separateent signs to the moviegoers. “AMC has a lengthy-standing policy that prohibits disturbive behavior,” Ryan Noonan, a spokesperson for the company, telderly the Indy Star. “The Wicked preshow spot includes the themes of the film as a fun, engaging reminder to moviegoers to not disturb the experience for those around them as they enhappiness the show.”
